Spousal Support (Alimony) Basics Spousal Support (Alimony) Basics When a married couple gets a divorce, the court may award alimony or spousal support to one of the former spouses, based either on an agreement between the couple or a decision by the court itself.
Damaged liver cells lose their ability to make protein. But previously produced protein may stay in the blood for 12 to 18 days, so it takes about 2 weeks for damage to the liver to show up as decreased serum protein levels. The liver's ability to make protein may be used to predict the course of certain liver diseases.
1 Hemoglobin is a protein which contains iron; it transports oxygen from the lungs to body tissues and cells. 2  97% of a human's red blood cell's dry content is protein. 3  Each RBC has a life span of about 4 months; at the end of their lives they are degraded by the spleen and the Kupffer cells in the liver.